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The Phenomenon of Weightlessness, Remedios Varo, 1963.

From { JungCurrents.com }

A man, presumably a scientist, stands in a room with a number of orreries on shelves. One orrery, of the Earth and Moon, has broken free of its base and floats in the air. In addition, the room is duplicated and shown superimposed over the original, but at an angle of 30 degrees. This room is the special theory of relativity made real, or surreal. To depict the so-called Lorentz equations, which are at the heart of Einstein’s revelation, one would draw a standard graph with X and Y axes, and then rotate the graph 30 degrees to show how time and space shift for different states of motion.

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Varo was a genius who didn’t get enough attention.
Shame that the reproductions of this image online are all completely shitty.

{ E.A.T. }

“In 1966, 10 New York artists worked with 30 engineers and scientists from the world renowned Bell Telephone Laboratories to create groundbreaking performances that incorporated new technology. Video projection, wireless sound transmission, and Doppler sonar had never been seen in the art of the 60s. The 9 Evenings DVD Series is an important documentation of the collaborations between the artists and engineers that produced innovative works using these emerging technologies. These performances still resonate today, as forerunners of the close and rapidly-evolving relationship between artists and technology.”
— Wikipedia

Niklas Luhmann (December 8, 1927 - November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, and a prominent thinker in sociological systems theory.

Luhmann’s systems theory focuses on three topics, which are interconnected in his entire work.

1. Systems theory as societal theory
2. Communication theory and
3. Evolution theory

Luhmann wrote prolifically, with more than 70 books and nearly 400 scholarly articles published on a variety of subjects, including law, economy, politics, art, religion, ecology, mass media, and love. While his theories have yet to make a major mark in American sociology, his theory is currently well known and popular in German sociology and has also been rather intensively received in Japan and Eastern Europe, including Russia. His relatively low profile elsewhere is partly due to the fact that translating his work is a difficult task, since his writing presents a challenge even to readers of German, including many sociologists.

Luhmann himself described his theory as “labyrinth-like” or “non-linear” and claimed he was deliberately keeping his prose enigmatic to prevent it from being understood “too quickly”, which would only produce simplistic misunderstandings.

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Harvard University image of Alfred North Whitehead, circa 1924

freshphotons:

Photograph of { Barbara McClintock’s } ears of corn (five) and a microscope.

fyeahchemistry:freshphotons:

Professor Sir Harold Kroto on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced - he received the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for discovering spherical fullerines, the carbon structures known as ‘Buckyballs’.

jpegheaven:

The Atomium was designed by André Waterkeyn (1917-2005)

(Source: jpegheaven, via freshphotons)

notationnotes:

Graphical representation of manipulable note configurations: hexahedrons.

From ‘Nomos Alpha’, 1965, Iannis Xenakis

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